Working-Class Literature: Pedagogy and a Course Design

Ayman Hassan Elhallaq

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Working-Class Literature: Pedagogy and a Course Design

Ayman Hassan Elhallaq

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 4)

Received: 1 July 2014 Accepted: 11 July 2014 Published: 20 July 2014

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Many working students have some skepticism about the worth of studying literature in the university classroom. They assume that the subject matter of literature taught to them doesn’t help them, in a certain manner, to connect more to their real life working situations. Compared to their practical way of life, the educational experience of literature in the classroom seems foreign to the experiences of many of them. Therefore, this paper proposes a method for teaching a literature course for the working-class students. The paper also recommends a course design that involves the working culture in the material taught in the classroom. The suggested syllabus includes a number of particular texts to be taught in a literature course for working students.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20140204.14
Page(s)	104-109
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Working-Class Literature, Teaching Literature, Class, Gender, Race

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Ayman Hassan Elhallaq

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine

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